Prowling the clubs on Ludlow Street
On spontaneous nights when live music becomes part of the agenda, Ludlow Street is the destination. We’re partial to the indie kids at Cake Shop and the coffeehouse singers at the Living Room, but really, any club will do just fine.
Shopping for a Japanese import at Other Music
The downtown record store sprang up across the street from mighty Tower Records, providing a modest alternative to the megastore. Goliath has since fallen, yet even in a digital age, Other Music remains an old-school mecca for those seeking obscurities and oddities.
Communing with ghosts at the Village Vanguard
Just descending the steep, narrow stairs of this hallowed Village nightspot feels like plunging into jazz history. Even when you’re hearing modern jazz greats at the Vanguard, you’re always aware that history happened here.
Seeing Barbara Carroll hold court at the Oak Room
It’s the perfect Sunday afternoon for anyone with a taste for classic New York elegance and style: a musical brunch with the agelessly graceful “chick piano player” Barbara Carroll, whose artful renditions of romantic standards are as gentle and polymorphous as a cloud.
Trying to keep track of Todd P’s shows
The indefatigable local DIY booker retains a dream of someday opening his own space; in the meantime, he stages wild indie shows in a variety of nontraditional, far-flung and just plain sketchy locales. Venues often change at the last minute, but that’s part of the fun.
Baking in the sun at cheap and free outdoor concerts
From Central Park SummerStage to Celebrate Brooklyn and from South Street Seaport to Castle Clinton, New York has an absurdly generous array of free, world-class concerts every summer, representing almost every genre and age group imaginable.
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